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Below is my session, I take a future look at where I see the Enterprise Architecture industry going. The New World of Enterprise Architecture, from IT Architecture to Enterprise Architecture Mike Walker Principal Architect, Enterprise Strategy & Architecture, Microsoft Enterprise…
The inspiration for my active information post this week is an article in the Economist that highlights the use of data, sensors, aggregators and analytics in competitive racing — motor sports and sailing. Telematics for the win.
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Clearly the word “vector” is just a metaphor. But I agree that EA needs a more robust way of talking about change than simply assuming that change invo…
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The challenge is to position standards and policies to use standards in a way that establish and enable products, services and markets to be created or developed. The Open Group does just that. Continue reading →
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Here’s one of my favorite pictures of bad architecture that I use frequently in my presentations to non-architects. These pictures are from an elevator at Terminal 3 at JFK. Clearly there are at least three departments at JFK, each with … Continue reading →
Forget the hard-dollar ROI calculations and focus instead on the game-changing questions EA can answer to prove its business value. That was a point Gartner Analyst Scott Bittler recently made when he said “the value of EA is in how…
Forget the hard-dollar ROI calculations and focus instead on the game-changing questions EA can answer to prove its business value. That was a point Gartner Analyst Scott Bittler recently made when he said “the value of EA is in how…
What would you get if you put a drop of sewage in a barrel of wine?
Pretty much the same thing you’d have if you put a drop of wine in a barrel of sewage. i.e. sewage. Personally, I wouldn’t drink from either barrel. There is something to…
This one started from a Tweet from Vince Outlaw, one of the attendees at the recent Gartner EA conference in San Diego:
SMOutlaw: Hot IT job No. 1: Business architect http://ow.ly/5p44R Very timely as Enterprise Business Architecture is a HUGE subject at #GartnerEA
If you know me, you won’t be surprised that to me that was like […]
The Essentials While working with the concept of Enterprise Architecture it usually becomes a necessity to chose and implement a framework. As such the chief architect can either implement a standard framework, and as such commence the project of documenting … Continue reading →